Pregnancy Induced Remission Question

I kind of had pregnancy-induced remission...I felt a lot better when I was pregnant and finally had formed stools. But I also had severe hyperemesis and started flaring because of dehydration. Once that was addressed (daily IV fluids for most of the pregnancy), then I felt great. It was about 8 weeks along when that happened (starting the IV fluids).

Of course! :) I've been lucky to have good doctors and this forum. I think I actually get more knowledge from this forum than from some of my doctors!! I know it can be scary to be so sick, especially when you're pregnant. You can always come here to ask anything.

When I became pregnant, my doctors made me go off of 6mp (after all the nastiness I had to put up with that med!) and so my symptoms were worse in the first trimester.
Aside from that, I felt fantastic throughout mt whole pregnancy! Best I've felt in years, in fact! No morning sickness at all, just some post lunchtime nausea and fatigue.
Everyone was quite surprised and my boyfriend said, maybe I should just stay pregnant.
Remicade was fine by itself and I had a textbook csection and amazingly quick recovery.
I was worried about a pp relapse, but I've been ok for the most part, definitely nothing that bad.
My fistula blocked up once and got tender, but it drained eventually.
And my milk started drying up in the 12th week pp, but I still pump and mix it with formula.
To sum up, I think pregnancy induced remission is possible, but not a guarantee, and you're unlikely to maintain a remissive state without meds.

Thanks Stef, I don't really know if I was in remission or not. Most of my flares are rectal, and they were usually worsened by my periods, but I also have angry hemorrhoids. Before I became pregnant I was to have a sigmoidoscopy on May 5th to see if the crohn's calmed down so he could deal with the hemorrhoids (had been on cortifoam). Since I haven't had any bleeding for over a month, I feel like it's just the hemmies (yes this is going to be a fun pregnancy :P). He bumped up my sigmoid to this week. Overall I feel good right now, just a sore bum and once in a while I get random diarrhea. Fingers crossed I get better or at least not worse and both of us are healthy!